Verizon workers plan to picket again

Verizon workers plan to picket again tomorrow as contract talks continue between the company and two unions that represent 65,000 workers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.

Albany, which was the site of a picket line last week, is not on the list this time, although Oneonta, Syracuse and Utica are.

The Communications Workers of America put out a press release this afternoon announcing the picket lines and said one of the major issues of discussions is the outsourcing of work by Verizon to nonunion workers.

The current five-year contract expired at 12:01 a.m. Sunday but both the union and the company agreed to extend the pact as long as negotiations were productive.